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marin [14]
3 years ago
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What is one of the reasons that swift gives for his proposal?

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brilliants [131]3 years ago
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A. harvesting poor infants will reduce the number of papists in the country.-APEX
Sergeu [11.5K]3 years ago
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The correct answer is:

D. Harvesting poor infants will reduce the number of papists in the country.

<em>"A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick", </em>is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay recommends that the impoverished Irish might decrease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies.

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